The Lindisfarne Community

"Celtic Cross with Rainbow" by Andrew Craig Williams

Lindisfarne Community

Book Series

The first three books in the series are the community's prayer and liturgy resource, the history, understandings and personal stories of members, and the reflections of the community's abbot on theology, philosophy, practice, and life.

Each book is available in hardback, paperback and on Kindle and Nook

Secular Monasticsm

Each book is available in hardback, paperback and ebook versions.

The Lindisfarne Community is an independent, ecumenical religious community in the Anglo-Celtic tradition. We are committed to the "new (or secular) monasticism." A friend of the community described us as "A religious order with apostolic succession." We have professed members in the USA, the UK, and Indonesia.

Our mother house, the home of our abbess and abbot, is in Ithaca, NY. We also have several daughter houses:

St. Cuthbert's Chapel and Priory in Madison WI
Wild Goose Hermitage in New London NH
Scripture House in Keene NH,
Ninth Wave Hermitage in Atlanta, GA
The Waystead Hermitage in Salt Lake City, UT
Sophia's Grove in Spring Branch, TX.

Our spirituality is a balanced life of prayer, study, service and rest . . . a new form of monasticism. We are relational, egalitarian, contemplative, sacramental and inclusive. We are part of a grass-roots movement, sometimes called "emerging church" exploring spirituality for the twenty-first century, including re-envisioning priesthood.

We are deeply rooted in historical Christianity, yet are open to insights from other traditions. Our community prayer is "to be as Christ to those we meet, to find Christ within them."

We have embraced emphases from, among others, the Celtic Christian communities of the fourth to ninth centuries in Northern Britain and Ireland; the desert fathers and mothers and the early monastic movement; the Christian mystics; the radicals of the sixteenth century; the charismatic, Christian feminist and home church movements of the twentieth century. Community members have received wisdom from Buddhist, Daoist, Hindu, Jewish, and secular traditions, in the belief that "all truth is God's truth."